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medicalise

medicalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of medicalize.

Meaning of medicalize

Verb

medicalize (third-person singular simple present medicalizes, present participle medicalizing, simple past and past participle medicalized)

  1. (transitive) To make medical; to convert or reduce to a branch of medicine; especially, to pathologize.
    • The sexual objectification and violation of women is made invisible because technological reproduction has turned medicalized pornography into education […]1996, Dion Farquhar, The Other Machine: Discourse and Reproductive Technologies

Forms of medicalise

third-person singular presentmedicalises
present participlemedicalising
past participlemedicalised
pastmedicalised

Origin of medicalise

From medical + -ise.

Questions about medicalise

What is medicalise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Medicalise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of medicalize.

Words near medicalise in the dictionary

  1. medicaled out
  2. medicalese
  3. medicaling out
  4. medicalisation
  5. medicalisations
  6. medicalise
  7. medicalised
  8. medicalises
  9. medicalising
  10. medicalism
  11. medicalizable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: medicalise (page history and authors); medicalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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